Coin-controlled mechanism.



A. RYDQUIST. COIN CONTROLLED MECHANISNL.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 8,1915.

Patented July 3, 1917.,

4 SHEETSSHEET I.

II. RYQQUIST.

COIN CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1915.

1,281,?93., Patented July 3, 1917.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 2 IQ? INVENTOP 1' M4 g BY ATORNEY i A. RYDQUIST.

COIN CDNTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8' 1915.

Patented July 3, 191? 4 SHEETSSHEET 3.'

IN V EN TOR.

W gawua BYW/ ' TORNEY A. RYDQUIST.

COIN CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 8' 1915.

msm ae Patented July 3, 1917.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

INVENTOR.

pa IL BY M ATTORA/Efi TINTTFQD STATES PATENT ADOLPI-I RYDQUIST, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

COIN-CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

Application filed. November 8, 1915.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLrrr RYDQUIST, of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful CoinControlled Mechanism, fully set forth in the following specilication and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to coin con trolled mechanisms, and particularly to that type designed for preventing the operation of the machine by the use of slugs with holes therein, an object being to provide a con- 'struction having a minimum number of movable parts for effecting the operation of the machine.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described. the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view, in central vertical section of a vending machine embodying the present invention, with the parts in normal position;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the coin carrier shifted slightly from normal position;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line a-a, Fig. 4, showing the position of the parts at the end of the ejecting movement;

Fig. 4 is a rear view of the coin carrier and parts of the casing;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the line bb, Fig. 4:, in a plane above the coin seats, while the parts are in normal position;

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5 showing the parts shifted slightly from the positions shown in Fig. 5 and having a coin on one of the coin seats;

Fig. 7 is a view showing the parts shifted to the extreme end of the ejecting move ment;

Fig. 8 is a detail view of the plate which forms the two abutments on the coin carrier;

Fig. 9 is a detail view of a modification in which the coin abutment on the coin carrier is integral with the carrier; and

Fig. 10 is a detail view showing the connection of the operating member to the equalizer.

The invention 1s, 1n the present nstance, illustrated as m a kedeeding ma Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 191?.

Serial No. 60,198.

chine of the type illustrated in my Patent $51,084,147, dated July 30, 1912, and a num ber of the parts herein shown are the same as in the aforesaid patent and will not be described in minute detail. It is to be understood, however, that the present invention 1s not limited to the type of machine shown in the aforesaid patent, but may be used in any coin controlled apparatus.

In this embodiment of the invention, a casing 1 is provided similar in form and construction to that shown in the aforesaid patent and having a coin receptacle 2 formed in the bottom thereof and also having an opening for the discharge of coins or other articles which do not operate the machine. lVithin the casing is arranged a carriage forming the coin carrier and comprising a plate at arranged to travel at its ends on guides 5 in the casing and having depending portions 6 and 7 at its front and rear edges, respectively, guided on a tube 8, which incloses a helical spring 9, that acts on the depending portion 6 to hold the carriage in its normal or forward position. In this instance, the plate 1 is provided with two coin seats formed by the front and rear edges 10 and 11 of openings 12, the openings each being of such a size that coins of proper denomination will rest on the edges 10 and 11 but may be shifted-laterally therein, to drop through the opening.

Any suitable means may be employed for directing the coins to the coin seats. In this instance, the casing 1 is provided with two coin slots 13, each of which leads to ways 14, forming a chute and directing the coin to a slot 15 which is formed in an angular frame 16, the latter having a horizontal portion parallel with the plate 1 and a vertical portion depending from the horizontal portion and secured at 17 to the depending portion 6, of the plate 1. Between the horizontal portion of the frame 16 and the plate 1 are arranged partitions 18, each having an inclined way 19 thereon leading from a slot 15 to an opening 12, the walls of which form the coin seat on the coin carrier.

The members to be actuated are, in this instance, ejectors which act upon suitable articles to eject them from any suitable container. In this instance, two ejectors are employed and these ejectors are arranged on the coin carrier, although any other arrangement may be provided. In this construction, the ej o s lie b lo h h n" ment with the article to be ejected.

zontal portion of the angular frame 16 and have their forward ends fulcrumed upon said vertical portion, the rear ends of the ejectors being turned laterally and upwardly in rear of the horizontal portion for engage- Under normal conditions, these ejector-s lie in operative position, as shown in Fig. 1, but, upon the rearward movement of the coin carriage, the ejectors are moved downwardly, unless a proper coin is introduced into the machine when they are held against downward movement until laterally extending portions 22 thereon engage the upper surface of a support 23 which is mounted on a plate 23 and is common to both of the ejectors, to prevent the lowering of the ejectors until the latter have reached the end of their ejecting movements. In order to prevent the return of the coin carriage until the end of the ejecting movement is reached, each of the ejectors is provided with a nose or projection 24 adapted to operate through an opening in the angular frame 16, to engage with the teeth on a ratchet or toothed member 25 which is pivoted at 26 to the casing 1 and pressed toward the frame 16 by a spring 27.

With the end in view of discharging any coin or other device passed through the coin slot 13 and clogging the coin chute, the front or forward ways 14 are connected and are pivotally mounted at 28, being held in normal position by a spring 29. A. member 30, pivoted at 26, is adapted to co6pera-te at 31 with a portion 32 on the front coin ways 14. Under normal conditions, this member lies in the position shown in Fig. 1, in the path of the horizontal portion of the frame 16 on the coin carrier, and, when the coin carrier is moved rearwardly, said member 30 is swung on its pivot 26 in the manner shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, causing the front ways 14 to move from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 3, thus widening the chutes and causing any article with in the chutes to drop between the casing and the front face of the coin carriage through the discharge opening 3.

An important feature of this invention is the novel means by which perforated slugs control the operation of the ejectors. This means, in this instance, comprises two slug penetrators 33, one for each ejector. Each penetrator is pivotally mounted at 34 and has a point 35 arranged to pass through an opening of a slug should the latter be positioned on the coin seat of a coin carrier. This slug penetrator normally lies in the position shown in Fig. 5 and it is moved over the opening 12 by means of an operator 36 which extends through the casing 1 and has a limited longitudinal movement on the coin carrier.

This operating member connects with both of the slug penetrators and, to this end, is provided with an annular groove 37 receiving an equalizer 38 which is provided with a pivot pin 39 shiftable in the slot 40 in the coin carrier 4. On opposite sides of this pivot, the equalizer engages two depending projections 41 extending through slots 42 from two slides 43 guided on the upper surface of the coin carrier 4 between the openings 12. Each of these slides 43 is provided with a rack or toothed portion for cooperation with a segmental gear portion 44 on one of the slug penetrators 33 so that, when the operator 36 is moved inwardly on the coin carrier, it will, except under certain conditions, shift the equalizer 33 and thereby transmit motion to the two slides 43 which, in turn, transmit motion to the slug penetrators 33 causing the points 35 of the latter to be projected transversely of the coin seat. This opera-tion takes place whenever there is no coin upon the seat or when a perforated slug is arranged upon the seat. If a coin of the proper denomination be arranged upon one or both of the coin seats, then the slug penetrator, or penetrators, will be stopped as shown in Fig. 6. This causes, if only one be stopped, the equalizer 38 to turn on its pivot 39 in order to permit the movement of the other slug penetrator across its coin seat. Upon the return of the coin carrier to its normal position, shown in Fig. 5, the ends 45 of the slug penetrators cooperate with the interior of the casing 1 and are, in this manner, moved to normal positions.

As before stated, the slug penetrators control the ejectors or other members to be actuated, and, to this end, each slug penetrator is preferably provided with a notch 46 which receives the end of a depending arm 47 on an ejector 20. lVhen the slug penetrators are in the normal positions shown in Fig. 5 and Fig. 1, the ejectors 20 are arranged on the coin carrier in positions which, if maintained when the carriage moves rearwardly, would cause the delivery of the articles to be vended. However, if no coins are on the coin seats, the slug penetrators shift on their pivots 34, under the action of the operating member 36, and the ejectors are thereby lowered or moved downwardly out of the path of the articles to be vended. The engagement of the slug penetrator with the coin prevents the depression of the ejector until the latter is moved so that the projection 22 thereon will engage the guide 23 and, in this way, the ejector is held in ejecting position until the inner movement of the coin carrier is completed.

Unless some means is provided for preventing such action, the slug penetrators would shift the coins laterally on their seats and, in this way, cause the coins to drop through the openings 12. To overcome this, two lateral abutments are provided for engaging that face of each coin opposite that engaged by the slug penetrator. In this instance, one of these abutments is arranged on the coin carrier and the other is arranged on a part to which the coin carrier moves relatively. In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 7 and 9, the abutment on the coin carrier is formed by the side face of an upwardly-turned lug 48 on the plate 49 which, by bayonet slots 50, connect with headed lugs 51 on the coin carrier and also serves to retain the slides 41 and the slug penetrators to the plate 4. This plate is formed with two of such lugs 48 for cooperating with the two coin seats. Instead of a separate plate, the abutment on the coin carrier may be in the form of a lug bent upwardly from the plate 4 in the manner shown in Fig. 9.

The stationary abutment 52 cooperates with the coin while the coin carrier is in normal position and until such a time that the carrier has moved, so that the lateral lug 22 on the ejector 20 engages the guide 23. Shortly after such engagement of the ejector with the guide 23, the coin is engaged on its opposite side by a deflector 53, the stationary abutment 52 and the deflector 53 being ar ranged on a single plate 54 which is secured to a cross bar 55, which also serves for sup porting the spring tube 8, such plate having a laterally-turned portion 56 held to the cross bar-r by screws 57.

The operation of the invention will be understood from the foregoing detailed de scription but it may be summarized as follows:

While the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, a coin deposited in the slot 13 will, if of the proper denomination, roll down the chute 14 through the slot 15 to the coin seat formed by the walls 10 and 11 of the opening 12 where it will be held in upright position by the abutments 48 and 52. When the operating member 36 is pressed in wardly, said member will first move longitudinally on the coin carrier until one of the slug penetrators has passed across its coin seat and the other has moved into engagement with the coin, as will be seen by referring to Fig. 6 where 00 indicates the coin. This movement of one of the slug penetrators is transmitted to its ejector, causing the de pression of such ejector from ejecting position on the coin carrier. As the other slug penetrator moves but a slight distance, the ejector connected therewith is not depressed but is maintained in ejecting position until its lug 22 engages with the guide 23 when said ejector will continue rearwardly with the coin carrier to complete the ejecting movement. After the coin carrier has moved rearwardly a certain distance, the coin is moved laterally on its widened seat by the deflector 53 until it reaches a point that it may drop through the opening 12 into the coin receptacle 2. If a slug has been inserted in the machine, it will be penetrated by the slug penetrator and the ejector will move to the inoperative position as if nothing has been inserted in the machine, and, as the slug is carried rearwardly on the slug penetrator, it is stripped from the latter by the deflector 53.

A coin controlled mechanism constructed in accordance with this invention is inexpensive to manufacture and not liable to get out of order. The coin is supported onthe coin seat by two abutments, one of which is stationary or rigid with the coin carrier and the other of which is supported, independently of the coin carrier, in a stationary position, so that the coin carrier may move relatively thereto to carry the coin out of engagement therewith. A deflector is also mounted on a stationary part to shift the coin laterally on the coin seat in order to effect the discharge of the coin from the coin carrier.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1, In a coincontrolled mechanism, a movable coin carrier, a member to be actuated, a slug penetrator adapted for cooperation with a coin on the coincarrier and controlling the movement of the member to be actuated, and a coin abutment mounted independently of the carrier to hold the coin against movement under the action of the slug penetrator and releasing the coin after the coin carrier has moved relatively to the abutment to a certain position.

2. In a coin controlled mechanism, a movable coin carrier, a member to be actuated, a slug penetrator adapted for cooperation with a coin on the coin carrier and controlling the movement of the member to be actuated, a coin abutment mounted independently of the carrier to hold the coin against movement under the action of the slug penetrator and releasing the coin after the coin carrier has moved relatively to the abutment to a certain position, and a deflector for discharging the coin from the coin carrier after such coin has been released by the abutment.

3. In a coin controlled mechanism, a movable coin carrier having a seat thereon on which a coin is movable laterally, a member to be actuated, a slug penetrator adapted for cooperation with the coin on the coin carrier and controlling th movement of the member to be actuated, and two abutments, one rigidly mounted on the coin carrier and the other mounted on the stationary part to hold the coin against lateral movement under the action of the slug penetrator, said stationary abutment releasing the coin after the coin carrier has moved to a certain position.

4:- In a coin controlled mechanism, a mova le 0 in carrier, a member to be actuated movably mounted on the coin carrier, a slug penetrator movably mounted on the coin carrier for cooperation with the coin thereon and connected to the member to be actuated to determine the operative position of the latter, and a coin abutment mounted independently of the carrier to hold the coin against movement under the action of the slug penetrator and releasing the coin after the coin carrier has moved relatively to the abutment to a certain aosition.

5. In a coin controlled machine, a movable coin carrier having two coin seats thereon, two members to be actuated, movably mounted on the coin carrier, two slug penetrators adapted for cooperating with coins on the coin carrier and connected to the members to be actuated to control the operative positions of the latter, an operator for the coin carrier having a movement rela tively to said carrier, an equalizing device interposed between said operator and the two slug penetrators, and two abutments mounted independently of the coin carrier to hold coins against movement under the action of the slug penetrators and releasing the coins after the coin carrier has moved to a certain position.

6. In a coin controlled mechanism, a movable coin carrier having two coin seats thereon, two members to be actuated, two slug penetrators adapted for cooperation with coins on the coin carrier and connected to the members to be actuated to control the operative positions of the latter, an operator for the coin carrier having a movement relatively to the carrier, means for cooperating with the coins to hold them against movement under the action of the slug penetrators and releasing the coins after the coin carrier has moved to acertain position, and an equalizing device interposed between the operator and the two slug penetrators and embodying amemb'er pivotally mounted on th operator, and two slides engaging the pivoted member on opposite sides of the pivot and having toothed connection with the slug penetrators.

7 In a coin controlled mechanism, a movable plate having two coin seats thereon, two members to be actuated, two slug penetrators pivoted on one side of the plate for cooperation with coins on the coin seats and connected to the members to be actuated to control the operative positions of th latter, an operator for the plate arranged on the side of the latter opposite the slug penetrators, means for cooperating with the coins to hold them against movement under the action of the slug penetrators and re leasing the coins after the plate has moved to a certain position, and an equalizing device interposed between the operator and the two slug penetrators and embodying a member pivotally mounted on the operator, and two slides arranged on the side or" the plate on which the slug penetrators are situated, having toothed connection *with the slug penetrators and engaging the pivoted. member on opposite sides of its pivot;

ADOLPH RYDQUIST.

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